Debian installed (again) on 10th December (2009, following major filesystem corruption of my previous Debian install).

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* matchbox window manager and keyboard. I'm kind of missing the E17 keyboard, but not as much as I expected to. The matchbox keyboard seems more usable than you'd think, given its size.

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matchbox window manager and keyboard. I'm kind of missing the E17 keyboard, but not as much as I expected to. The matchbox keyboard seems more usable than you'd think, given its size.

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* trayer, openmoko-panel-plugin and auxlaunch. Here's my .xsession:

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trayer, openmoko-panel-plugin and auxlaunch. Here's my .xsession:

#!/bin/sh

#!/bin/sh

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exec matchbox-window-manager -use_titlebar no -use_cursor no

exec matchbox-window-manager -use_titlebar no -use_cursor no

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* Some screenshots to show how it looks... I think the plainness of the top panel goes well with the sharp angles of Gtk+ apps.

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Some screenshots to show how it looks... I think the plainness of the top panel goes well with the sharp angles of Gtk+ apps.

<gallery>

<gallery>

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</gallery>

</gallery>

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* cellwriter is fun to have around. Once it has been started for the first time (which you can do from auxlaunch), it adds an icon to the top panel, and then you can click that to make cellwriter appear and disappear. So there is no need to decide whether to replace matchbox-keyboard with cellwriter in the openmoko-panel-plugin config; it's easy to have both. I made the following changes to the default config.

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cellwriter is fun to have around. Once it has been started for the first time (which you can do from auxlaunch), it adds an icon to the top panel, and then you can click that to make cellwriter appear and disappear. So there is no need to decide whether to replace matchbox-keyboard with cellwriter in the openmoko-panel-plugin config; it's easy to have both. I made the following changes to the default config.

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** Grid: 10 by 4 calls. Otherwise, when training, you can't get to some of the characters.

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* Grid: 10 by 4 calls. Otherwise, when training, you can't get to some of the characters.

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** Keyboard: 480 pixels wide. Obviously.

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* Keyboard: 480 pixels wide. Obviously.

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** Enable extended input events. Otherwise just doesn't work as an input method.

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* Enable extended input events. Otherwise just doesn't work as an input method.

Some screenshots to show how it looks... I think the plainness of the top panel goes well with the sharp angles of Gtk+ apps.

zhone

auxlaunch

Simon Tatham's cube puzzle

aptitude-gtk

cellwriter is fun to have around. Once it has been started for the first time (which you can do from auxlaunch), it adds an icon to the top panel, and then you can click that to make cellwriter appear and disappear. So there is no need to decide whether to replace matchbox-keyboard with cellwriter in the openmoko-panel-plugin config; it's easy to have both. I made the following changes to the default config.

Grid: 10 by 4 calls. Otherwise, when training, you can't get to some of the characters.

Keyboard: 480 pixels wide. Obviously.

Enable extended input events. Otherwise just doesn't work as an input method.

Some screenshots to show how it looks... I think the plainness of the top panel goes well with the sharp angles of Gtk+ apps.

zhone

auxlaunch

Simon Tatham's cube puzzle

aptitude-gtk

cellwriter is fun to have around. Once it has been started for the first time (which you can do from auxlaunch), it adds an icon to the top panel, and then you can click that to make cellwriter appear and disappear. So there is no need to decide whether to replace matchbox-keyboard with cellwriter in the openmoko-panel-plugin config; it's easy to have both. I made the following changes to the default config.

Grid: 10 by 4 calls. Otherwise, when training, you can't get to some of the characters.

Keyboard: 480 pixels wide. Obviously.

Enable extended input events. Otherwise just doesn't work as an input method.